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Instruments
  
Website
  
Fred LeBlanc website

Years active
  
1980s–present

Name
  
Fred LeBlanc


Labels
  
EMI Records

Role
  
Singer

Associated acts
  
Education
  
Fred LeBlanc Cowboy Mouth Louisiana Live Music Project


Music groups
  
Cowboy Mouth (Since 1990), Dash Rip Rock (1989)

Albums
  
All You Need Is Live, Voodoo Shoppe, Are You with Me?, Mouthing Off (live + ), Word of Mouth

Fred LeBlanc is the lead singer/drummer for the New Orleans-based rock band Cowboy Mouth, and a freelance songwriter, record producer, short story author, and acoustic performer. Known for his "maniacal" performance style, and described as "a short, muscular guy with a heavy brow and piercingly intelligent eyes", LeBlanc has been called "one of the more instantly recognizable figures in contemporary Louisiana music."

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Biography

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After graduating from Jesuit High School in New Orleans, LeBlanc began his career in the early 1980s with the Backbeats, also from New Orleans, which featured many future members of Cowboy Mouth. His tenure with this group was mostly relegated to background drummer.

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A year after the Backbeats disbanded in the mid-1980s, LeBlanc joined power trio Dash Rip Rock as drummer and as contributing songwriter and co-lead singer. The band was heavily influenced by the American roots music movement of the time, as well as the frenzied punk and rock stylings of both the Sex Pistols and Jerry Lee Lewis. To this mix, LeBlanc's songs usually had a very strong melodic component, with "Operator", "Blue Moon At Midnight", and "Go Home, Little Girl."

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LeBlanc left Dash Rip Rock in mid-1989 and signed a deal as a solo artist with EMI Records. Although no recordings were ever released from his tenure with the label, LeBlanc has said that the year off from the road "gave me a chance to focus on my songwriting," with LeBlanc writing many songs during that time that would appear on various Cowboy Mouth recordings later on.

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LeBlanc formed Cowboy Mouth in late 1990 with a lineup that has changed variously throughout the years, with the main constants being LeBlanc and John Thomas Griffith on guitar and vocals. The band has maintained a steady touring schedule since their formation, gaining in popularity steadily throughout the years through the notoriety of their live shows. LeBlanc has written many of Cowboy Mouth's material, such as "How Do You Tell Someone", "Love Of My Life", "Disconnected", "Take Me Back To New Orleans", "Easy", "Tell The Girl", "So Sad About Me", "The Avenue", and the band's signature song "Jenny Says".

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In addition to performing and recording with Cowboy Mouth, LeBlanc has mixed a few of their early independent label albums. He produced an album called A Different Story by New Orleans-based popsters Deadeye Dick. The album featured the song "New Age Girl", which won the band and LeBlanc a gold record in the early 1990s and was included in the Jim Carrey movie Dumb And Dumber.

LeBlanc has produced material for Mark Bryan of Hootie & The Blowfish fame, and albums for Dash Rip Rock, The Bingemen, and The Garden District. He also released solo CDs entitled Here On Earth, Shiver, Double Dammit, and Playing The Game Of My Life, as well as an album of spoken word short stories (also released in text form) called Always Give Thanks. In July 2010, LeBlanc said that he would continue to release solo music, a song or two at a time, during breaks in Cowboy Mouth's schedule.

Cowboy Mouth studio albums

  • Word of Mouth • 1992
  • It Means Escape • 1994
  • Are You with Me? • 1996
  • Word of Mouth (Remix) • 1996
  • Mercyland • 1998
  • Easy • 2000
  • Uh-Oh • 2003
  • Voodoo Shoppe • 2006
  • Fearless • 2008
  • This Train... • 2012
  • Go! • 2014
  • Cowboy Mouth live albums and EPs

  • Mouthin' Off (Live & More) • 1993
  • Mouthin' Off (Live & More) (Remastered) • 1997
  • Cowboy Mouth LIVE! (limited edition 5-song EP issued with Mercyland) • 1998
  • Live in the X Lounge "Jenny Says" • 1998 & 2001
  • All You Need Is Live • 2000
  • Live in the X Lounge "Easy" • 2000
  • Uh Oh (5-song Preview EP) • 2003
  • Live at the Zoo • 2004
  • Mardi Gras • 2010
  • This Train • 2013
  • Go • 2014
  • Cowboy Mouth live DVD

  • The Name of the Band is Cowboy Mouth • 2007
  • Dash Rip Rock albums featuring work of Fred LeBlanc

  • Paydirt (1998) (producer only)
  • Ace of Clubs (1989)
  • Dash Rip Rock (1987)
  • References

    Fred LeBlanc Wikipedia


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